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The Centre for Values,
Ethics and the Law in Medicine
maintains what it calls a 'Transient Desk' policy, whereby a person
works for a time with the group. In this way, the group brings in
outside expertise and quality control.
A number of international scholars will be visiting the Centre in 2006,
including:
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Dr Jackie Leach Scully
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Jackie
Leach Scully teaches and researches in the Unit for Ethics in
the Biosciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Originally a
molecular geneticist, she spent some years in medical research before
further study in bioethics, and most recently in psychoanalysis and
sociology. Her research interests are broadly to do with how different
constituencies, especially marginalised social groups, make moral
evaluations of novel scientific and medical issues. Specific areas of
interest are embodiment and disability; feminist bioethics; social
impact of new technologies; media representations of ethical issues;
and religious understandings. She has been involved with disability
activism for more than 20 years, and she is currently working on a book
about ethics and disability. Recent or forthcoming publications include
“Admitting all variations? Postmodernism and genetic normality” (in Ethics of the Body: Postconventional
Challenges, R Mykitiuk and M Shildrick (eds), MIT Press, 2005);
“Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex
selection” (Social Science and
Medicine); and “Creating donors: the 2005 Swiss law on donation
of ‘spare’ embryos to hESC research” (International
Journal of Ethics). She is the author of Quaker Approaches to Moral Issues in
Genetics, and co-editor of Gekauftes
Gewissen? Die Rolle der Bioethik in Institutionen and of An Ocean of Darkness, An Ocean of Light:
Quaker Views on Good and Evil. From December 2005 to March 2006
she is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie
University, and at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in
Medicine, University of Sydney.
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Previous Transient Desk consultants have been:
- Professor Jochen Vollmann, Professor of Medical
Ethics, Medical Faculty, University of Nuremberg;
- Professor Lawrence Schneiderman, Department of Family and
Preventive Medicine and the Department of
Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine;
- Professor Uffe Juul
Jensen, Professor of Philosophy, Århus,
Denmark;
- Dr Bertil Philipson,
general surgeon, Göteborg, Sweden;
- Professor Kathleen
Montgomery, Professor of Organizations,
Riverside Campus, University of California;
- Professor Robin
Downie, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University
of Glasgow, Scotland;
- Professor Nancy Dubler,
Director, Bioethics Unit, Montefiore Medical
Centre, New York;
- Mr Danny
Sriskandarajah, political economist and Rhodes Scholar
from NSW for 1998;
- Dr Arthur Frank,
Professor of Sociology and authority on illness
experience, from Calgary, Canada;
- Professor Donald
Evans, Professor of Bioethics, University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;
- Ms Jantine Stegeman,
Dutch Health Council, The Netherlands.
- Ms Alison Moore, PhD
candidate, a linguist working part-time in a
collaborative project with the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie
University.
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